On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> I checked and X1J4 accepts 6 characters, yet I know it caused me
> trouble, details escape me now, perhaps it was a surounding BPQ
> node which truncated it to 5. But as 6 is the spec thats what the
> software must support!
I've never seen any problems and we generally always use 6 character
aliases. The nodes around us include at least BPQ, TheNET, TheNET X1J and
Linux.
> By the way X1J4 permits up to 3 extra aliases, each of which will also
> respond to ALIAS-SSID. I have no idea if Linux supports this.
Linux will listen to whatever you put in the ax25d.conf file. You can make
a Linux box respond to hundreds of callsigns or aliases, with different
SSIDs or any SSID or for example just SSIDs -10...-15 or whatever you
like, limited by your imagination. The difference is that Linux doesn't do
anything by default, you have to configure it.
(The difficult part is the interface hardware addresses (ie. the
callsigns you see with "ifconfig"). Mixing them with callsigns in
ax25d.conf and with each other is potentially dangerous and you will have
to know what you are doing. But with the tricks I and John have described
you can configure your Linux based node system to be simple and intuitive
for the users.)
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